Season 2010/11 Honours

It was the end of season game/awards evening yesterday and there was no separating the A's/C's against the B's at the final show-down.

Charlie C, back playing for the A's/C's, really went out with a flourish.

With the smell of beer and food in his nostrils he really got a second wind as he pulled off several great saves in the end-of-season game and penalty shoot-out.

The A's and C's capitalised on a slow start from the B's (struggling to come to terms with the 3 o'clock k.o.) with goals in the first five minutes from Charlie L and Pete.

But the B's showed us what they were made of in the second half, hitting back through Paul K and Gez.

With Barca - Man U awaiting us (on tv in the pub) extra-time was forfeited and the last action of the season went to a penalty shoot-out.

Charlie pulled off his heroics to foil his B team team-mates and it was left to the the A's and C's to lift the imaginary trophy.

Thanks to everyone who came to the pub for our end-of-season gathering.

Looking back at 2010/11, all three teams challenged for honours but all three lacked the consistency to go the distance.

The problem we have is that we need a real super-human effort in any one of the three teams to overcome the one-team clubs who have squads of 18-19 to mount a League or Cup campaign.

Having challenged for honours on three fronts it would be good if we could go forward with three teams next season. But we will have to see what June/July and August bring because we didn't really have enough players to put out three good teams at a time this season.

Congratulations to the awards winners and well done to EVERYONE who played in what, at times, seemed like more of an endurance test than a football season. Everyone got behind each other and we always tried to play good football, unlike some of the teams we played who just tried to bully us.

But at the same time we also played against some very good teams, which was good.

This season's award winners were :

A Team Player of the Year : Pete
A Team Captain's Player of the Year : Neil

B Team Player of the Year : Jamie
B Team Captain's Player of the Year : Jamie

C Team Player of the Year : Maurizio
C Team Captain's Player of the Year : Ben George

The Golden Boot : Pete (17 League and Cup goals)
The Most Improved Player : Michael
The Sportmanship Trophy : James
Clubman of the Year : James

See you all in August/September !!

Adam